NASA scientists are developing a lunar truck, which will aid astronomers conducting scientific research on the moon in the future and prepare for journeys to more distant destinations.
The truck – dubbed ‘Chariot’ – provides an idea of what the transportation possibilities may be when astronauts start exploring the moon.
Being built at NASA’s [...]
Washington: Chewing gum may make your jaws hurt after a bit, but it could get you out of bed earlier after gastrointestinal surgery, as it helps in the recovery of bowel function, US scientists said in a study published in Urology.
Researchers studied 102 patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery and gave half of them five [...]
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Tokyo: Japanese scientists said Thursday they believed another planet up to two-thirds the size of the Earth was orbiting in the far reaches of the solar system.
The researchers at Kobe University said that theoretical calculations using computer simulations led them to conclude it was only a matter of time before the mysterious “Planet X” [...]
LONDON: Software worms may spread between Bluetooth-enabled mobiles in the same manner as flu viruses in humans, say researchers.
Christopher Rhodes, an expert on infectious diseases at Imperial College London, joined Maziar Nekovee, a researcher at BT’s research lab in Suffolk, UK, to create a mathematical model to discern how a wireless computer worm could spread [...]
NEW DELHI: An ambitious plan to study the Sun will soon take shape with scientists making preparations for launch of a satellite named ‘Aditya’ to observe the corona, the Sun’s outermost region, the government informed Parliament on Wednesday.
"Satellite ‘Aditya’ will study the corona, the outermost region of the Sun, [...]
Caretaker Suresh Meena displays 4,000-year-old pottery recovered at the Kanmer Excavation site in Kutch, some 275 kms from Ahmedabad. A team of Indian and Japanese researchers announced that they have unearthed in Gujarat the remains of five different civilisations of the Harappan era.
Y S Rawat, the Director of Gujarat State Department of Archaeology, said a [...]
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London: Here is good news for those thinning at the top – a gene that prevents regeneration of hair has been identified by German researchers. People losing their hair can now hope for medicines to inhibit this gene.
Until recently, many scientists assumed that mammalian hair follicles, which anchor and shape individual hairs, were a non-renewable [...]
The next time the clouds open up, lightning might not be the only thing producing electricity. A group of French scientists claim to have developed an apparatus that may facilitate the generation of power from rain showers.
Romain Guigon, a research and development engineer at the research institute CEA Leti-Minatec in Grenoble, says that the new [...]
London: Electronics giant Philips is all set to create a sensor bed that keeps a close watch on the health of heart failure patients. One of the aims of the ‘My Heart’ project – funded by the EU – is to help spot heart problems several days before they become life threatening, say reports.
The [...]
Avoid irritants, breathe properly, get regular exercise, keep an asthma diary – patients with chronic respiratory diseases have to lead a highly disciplined life. Now, scientists at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institutes for Software and Systems Engineering (ISST) and for Integrated Circuits (IIS) have built a digital patient assistant that will help such patients regulate their lives.
The [...]
